Responding to Voices: Compassionate approaches and hopeful alternatives
Course | Last updated 2nd March 2023
This online workshop is an introduction to the Hearing Voices Approach, a recovery model that aims to provide tools to assist people to alleviate the distress associated with voices. Course details Responding to Voices: Compassionate approaches and hopeful alternatives is an introductory course perfect for anyone new to the Hearing Voices Approach and would like […]
Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice
Course | Last updated 25th January 2023
This introductory course is a series of four half-day online sessions designed to develop core principles of Trauma Informed Practice. Course details Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice is bite-sized training accessible for all, run over four half day sessions. What is Trauma? explores the biology, types and definitions of trauma. Safety Making explores meanings of […]
https://mhcc.org.au/course/introduction-to-trauma-informed-practice/
Managing Workers with Lived Experience
Course | Last updated 24th January 2023
This two-day course is for managers, team leaders and HR professionals who support a peer workforce and wish to build their skills to create a supportive and safe workplace. Course details Managing Workers with Lived Experience explores and describes management practices that promote good mental health. Participants learn to distinguish between mental health and performance issues, and […]
https://mhcc.org.au/course/managing-workers-with-lived-experience/
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Course | Last updated 20th January 2023
This introductory course teaches the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing for use in person-centred counselling. Course details Motivational Interviewing is a guiding style of communication that uses the principles and practices of person-centred counselling to evoke a conversation with a person about their personal motivation for change. This workshop includes a presentation, group discussion and interactive […]
https://mhcc.org.au/course/introduction-to-motivational-interviewing/
Advanced Motivational Interviewing
Course | Last updated 13th January 2023
This course is designed to teach skills to support people through change using an effective person-centred approach used widely in therapeutic settings. Course Overview Advanced Motivational Interviewing uses a therapeutic, person-centred approach to evoke a person’s own motivation to make change happen. People who are not provided the opportunity to explore their own concerns and […]
https://mhcc.org.au/course/advanced-motivational-interviewing/
Safe Storytelling
Course | Last updated 3rd January 2023
This online workshop will improve the skills of participants who use their lived experience in service provision. Course overview The Safe Storytelling online workshop teaches participants about purposeful, meaningful and sustainable storytelling, which can help guide interactions that require shared storytelling of lived experience. Participants will be given the chance to craft their own purposeful […]
Self-care
Course | Last updated 22nd June 2022
Practical tools and tips to help manage personal and client wellbeing. Gain a renewed sense of energy and expertise in wellbeing and self-care. Course overview Self-care focuses on you! As the saying goes, ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup’ and so during the course, you will learn new skills and tools to help you […]
Connecting Physical and Mental Health
Course | Last updated 7th June 2022
Learn how mental and physical health interact, and strategies to improve the physical health of the people you work to support. Course overview Connecting Physical and Mental Health equips mental health workers with vital strategies to improve the physical health of the people they work to support. People living with mental health conditions have a […]
https://mhcc.org.au/course/connecting-physical-mental-health/
Provide services to people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues
Course | Last updated 28th March 2022
Build your skills to effectively support clients with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues through this new two-day online workshop. Course overview Many people who experience mental health issues also have co-occurring needs related to drug and alcohol use. Build your skills to effectively support clients with co-existing mental health and Alcohol […]
Understanding Mental Health
Course | Last updated 7th July 2021
An introductory course teaching essential skills for workers in community settings to support hope, recovery and connection among people living with mental health conditions. Course overview Gain the confidence to support and respond to people living with a mental health condition, using recovery-oriented, person-centred principles. Understanding Mental Health is an introductory course created with the […]
Understanding and Responding to Trauma
Course | Last updated 7th July 2021
This course provides a comprehensive look at trauma in a social service and healthcare setting and aims to provide tools to better support people who have experienced trauma. Course overview Do you provide support and practical assistance to people who have experienced trauma? Trauma informed care and recovery-orientated practice is a two-day online workshop designed […]
https://mhcc.org.au/course/understanding-and-responding-to-trauma/
Understanding Medication
Course | Last updated 7th July 2021
Helping people you support to understand and manage their medication. Course overview For many people medication is a part of their recovery journey. For people living with a mental health condition, having an understanding of the impact of medication can increase their sense of control over their health and recovery. Feel more confident to support […]